CENTIFOLIA ROSES

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Fantin-Latour

Centifolia, single blooming; source/date unknown
Soft blush/shell pink; fragrant
Heirloom Roses, 2005

​Ignace-Henri-Joseph-Theodore Fantin-Latour (1836-1904) earned his living by turning out over 800 paintings of flowers. His still-life bouquets featured the so-called “cabbage” roses—which are technically Centifolia or hundred-petalled roses. He also painted representations of themes from works of Hector Berlioz and what his biographer Gustave Kahn called “transcriptions” of scenes of Wagner’s “Das Rheingold”, one of which served as the cover of The Cleveland orchestra program book for 1992-93. 

Observer l'évolution progressive de Fantin LaTour.
(Observe the progressive evolution of Fantin LaTour)

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Quick Links to Cross Reference Rose Classifications and Names
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Rose Classifications
- Bourbon (Mme Isaac Pereire and Honorine de Brabant)
- Centifolia (Fantin-Latour)
- Damask (Autumn Damask) 
- Floribunda (Gruss an Aachen and Westerland)
- Ground (Carpet of Color and Sea Foam)
- Hybrid Musk (Buff Beauty and Prosperity)
- Hybrid Perpetual (Baron Girod de l'Ain, Reine des Violettes, & Souvenir de Dr Jemain)
- Noisette (Champney's Pink Cluster)          
- Old Shrub (Henry Navard)
- Pimpinellifolia Hybrid (Stanwell Perpetual)
- Polyantha (Maria Pavie)
- Portland (Compte de Chambord and Rose de Rescht)
- Rugosa (Blanc double de Coubert, Roseraie de l'Hay, Rugelda, and Topaz Jewel)

Rose Names
- Autumn Damask
- Baron Girod de l'Ain
- Blanc double de Coubert
- Buff Beauty
- Carpet of Color
- Champney's Pink Cluster
- Compte de Chambord
- Fantin-Latour
- Gruss an Aachen
- Henry Navard
​- Honorine de Brabant
- Maria Pavie
- Mme Isaac Pereire
- Prosperity
- Reine des Violettes
- Roseraie de l'Hay
- Rose de Rescht
- Rugelda
- Sea Foam
- Souvenir de Dr Jemain
- Stanwell Perpetual
​- Topaz Jewel
- Westerland